"The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do."

"The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal."

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."

"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."

"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."